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Definition: Joyousness |
JoyousnessNoun1. The emotion of great happiness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joyousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: JoyousnessSynonyms: joy (n), joyfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sorrow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Joyousness |
| Specialty definitions using "joyousness": Singing. (references) |
| "Joyousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Joyousness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "joyousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Freude (blitheness, delight, enjoyment, fun, funnies, gladness, glee, gratification, happiness, joice, joy, mirth, pleasure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | gioia (delight, enjoyment, gem, gladness, glee, jewel, joy, joyfulness, mirth, rejoicing), felicità (felicity, happiness, joy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oyousnessjay glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, jollity, joy, joyfulness, mirth, pleasance, satisfaction). (various references) sự vui sướng (joyfulness, jubilance, jubilation), sự vui mừng (cheerfulness, festivity, gladness, joy, joyfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "joyousness": joyousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-j-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-y" | |
-3 letters: osseous. | |
-4 letters: enjoys, josses, joyous, nooses, nouses, onuses, souses. | |
-5 letters: enjoy, joeys, jones, noose, noses, nosey, snyes, sones, sonsy, sooey, souse, youse. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-j-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: joyousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 79 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- --- -.--. --- ..- ... -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o y o u s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0079 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44819181878580718585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tedesco, tysk, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, svedese, svensk, ngÆ°á»i Thuỵ Ä‘iển tiếng Thuỵ Ä‘iển |
Vietnamese | có tÃnh chất sách vở, sá»± định rõ, sá»± định nghÄ©a, lá»i định nghÄ©a sá»± định, sá»± dịch, sá»± biến thà nh sá»± giải thÃch | vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnames, ngÆ°á»i Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, inglese, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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